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Conscience and Coercion

Ahmadi Muslims and Orthodoxy in Pakistan

By: Antonio R. Gualtieri

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Conscience and Coercion

Ahmadi Muslims and Orthodoxy in Pakistan

By: Antonio R. Gualtieri

Relates the tragic experience of members of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam and records their testimony of harassment and persecution resulting from their loyalty to their understanding of God and His revelation.

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0920717411

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9780920717417

Search for Meaning

Exploring Religions of the World

By: Antonio R. Gualtieri

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Search for Meaning

Exploring Religions of the World

By: Antonio R. Gualtieri

Search for Meaning points to religious traditions as the expression of a human impulse to discover and affirm a meaningful world in which to live and characterises the study of religion as an empathetic quest to understand the religious devotees' world-and-value views and their efforts to appropriate and live according to them.

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0920717616

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9780920717615

Ahmadis

Community, Gender, and Politics in a Muslim Society

By: Antonio R. Gualtieri

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Ahmadis

Community, Gender, and Politics in a Muslim Society

By: Antonio R. Gualtieri

Table of Contents The Ahmadis : Community, Gender, and Politics in a Muslim Society by Gualtieri, Antonio Terms of Use Introduction: Tradition and Modernity p. vii 1 Setting the Scene p. 5 Part 1 Community 2 Piety and Religious Practice in Rabwah p. 19 3 Social Life and Institutions p. 38 Part 2 Gender 4 Purdah and Vocation p. 77 Part 3 Politics 5 Islam, Politics, and the Ahmadis p. 113 6 Harassment and Persecution p. 133 Conclusion p. 155 Afterword p. 157 Acknowledgments p. 159 Glossary p. 161 Appendix 1 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, 1835-1908, Founder of Ahmadiyyat p. 169 Appendix 2 The Khalifa on Purdah p. 173 Appendix 3 The Ahmadis as Crypto-Zionists p. 179 Bibliography p. 185 Index p. 189 Copyright ® 2011 R.R. Bowker LLC. All Rights Reserved. Summary The Ahmadis : Community, Gender, and Politics in a Muslim Society by Gualtieri, Antonio Terms of use Ahmadi Muslims are in a minority wherever they live. They are strongly committed to supernatural revelation and governance by the divine. They maintain exacting standards of authority, family life, and relations between the sexes. They are despised by Muslim fundamentalists. They have endured hostility, imprisonment, and mob violence. However, in this sequel to his previous work with the Ahmadi, Gualtieri (religion emeritus, Carlton U.) finds they seek to maintain their identity and remain apart, even amongst the Sunni in Pakistan. Gualtieri includes new interviews with elders, families, and women seeking education, examines the conditions of Ahmadi communities after 9/11, and their continued rejection of modernity in any aspect of their lives. He also examines some of the charges their enemies have leveled at them, including Zionism, and the very limited hope that they ever be allowed a state of their own in Pakistan as an indigenous people. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Copyright ® 2011 R.R. Bowker LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773527370

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9780773527379

Disclosures

Symbols, Worlds, Selves

By: Antonio R. Gualtieri

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Disclosures

Symbols, Worlds, Selves

By: Antonio R. Gualtieri

Antonio R. Gualtieri's book Disclosures offers a provocative exploration of what religion is and how it works in the lives of people. The interpretation of religion that runs through this book asserts that it entails participation in a symbol system that creates selfhood because the symbols communicate a vision of reality and a value system that responds to the threats and crises of life. In today's secular world, it is important to note that "vision of reality" cannot be reduced to "belief in God." First, because "believing" is not primarily what religious people do, and second because one can have a religious worldview that does not entail gods and supernatural beings.Disclosures is written in an episodic style comprised of analytic reflection and personal narrative drawing on extensive travels in diverse cultures. It begins by delineating the various symbolic forms in which religions find expression, like myth, rituals, doctrines and social organization. It then sets out to interpret the meaning of this symbolic world. This entails showing how the symbols of religion disclose their users' understanding of human existence, the historical process, the natural environment, ultimate powers and values. The result of these wide-ranging explorations is a theoretically illuminating and existentially engaging reflection on life's most vexing questions and transformative possibilities.

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Lifeworld Press

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0994995601

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